health

  • Leaving a world of pain and isolation behind  

    Leaving a world of pain and isolation behind  

    Fahima is a 22-year-old postgraduate zoology student from in Pakistan’s Chitral district near the Afghanistan border.     For the past three years, Fahima has been suffering from the agony of trichiasis, a painful condition caused by trachoma which is the world’s leading cause of infectious blindness.     For sufferers,...
  • Eye disease trachoma eliminated in Pakistan

    The Fred Hollows Foundation has welcomed the World Health Organization’s (WHO) validation that Pakistan has eliminated the eye disease trachoma as a public health problem. The Foundation, with the support of the Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Commonwealth Heads of Government and the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP),...
  • No one in Gaza is safe from starvation

    No one in Gaza is safe from starvation

    (Rome, Italy): More than one in four households in Gaza currently face extreme hunger, and there is a risk of famine unless access to adequate food, clean water, health and sanitation services is restored, according to a new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report released today. The IPC...
  • Dr. Dana Alsulaiman: Contributing to Positive Health Transformations in Saudi Arabia

    Dr. Dana Alsulaiman: Contributing to Positive Health Transformations in Saudi Arabia

    The L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Middle East Regional Young Talents Program, in partnership with Khalifa University of Science and Technology, earlier celebrated a decade of empowering female scientists from the GCC in the fields of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science, who have blazed trails and...
  • Saving Lives By Destigmatizing Mental Health And Cancer

    Saving Lives By Destigmatizing Mental Health And Cancer

    As I was exploring DCF’s work, I lost thought for a few minutes when I read these lines on its Homepage, “In Nepal, cancer is still considered a communicable disease and cancer patients are ignored in the society.” I could not help thinking how heartbreaking it must be for...
  • Challenging Poverty & Racism Through Vision

    The article is part of Ananke's special spotlight edition celebrating The Fred Hollows Foundation's 30 years of change making in the fields of development and eye health. You can check out the special edition here.   In Australia, 35 percent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults have never...
  • One in 100 deaths is by suicide

    One in 100 deaths is by suicide

    Suicide remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, according to WHO’s latest estimates, published today in “Suicide worldwide in 2019”.  Every year, more people die as a result of suicide than HIV, malaria or breast cancer – or war and homicide.  In 2019, more than 700 000...
  • Workplace well being programs failing working moms and millennials

    Workplace well being programs failing working moms and millennials

    February 11th, 2020, Portland, Ore. (USA): Working women caring for children experience loneliness, isolation and stress at far greater rates than others and are looking to their employers to help them better manage these issues, according to the results of a new survey from WebMD Health Services. The well-being division of WebMD, WebMD...
  • Rise of the Phoenix

    I recently launched my newest website, Linda Skarrup Healing Arts, formerly known as Windhorse Consulting, both evolved from Therapeutic Movement, which was the name of my business for fifteen years. All three entities held a common vision: that of helping others heal from a wide range of traumas, injuries...
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